Re: Voyetra Sound Card--lound squeal, hiss
Success! I finally have sound! Since others may be having or have had
similar problems I would like to note that Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 works
perfectly on Debian with kernel 2.6.7-1 running. My previous sound card
installed by Dell on my Dimension 8100 (a now 2-3 year old computer with
a 1.2 GHx PIV) was a Santa Cruz Voyetra Turtle Beach Card. And while
the kernel appeared to recognize the card during start-up based on the
on-screen boot text, I was never able to get it to produce anything
other than a loud squeal. After doing some online "research" I saw
others had similar problems with their sound cards installed by OEMs
which are not got exactly equivalent to their retail counterparts. The
SoundBlaster Live! card cost only $32.39 (with Ohio tax) at CompUSA and
I am now listening to streaming music from Streamtuner which is a really
awesome online radio/music program...many, many more stations already
programmed in than what you get with iTunes. Rhythmbox is another
really neat piece of software.
Goodnight everybody,
Greg
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